Well people have their reasons and I'm not going to criticise anyone for not going, our support overseas and with kids here has increased massively but our support and particularly those who attend is actually less than it was pre-c0vid, the capacity was reduced by 1000 or so and there were a lot less non sell outs back then. Out support generally is STILL GM based, there are blues scattered about the country granted but I'd argue our reach is less than comparable clubs such as Everton, Newcastle, Villa etc, Everton have swathes of fans in North Wales and probably have more support in places like St Helen's, Warrington etc than us which are more or less half way between the two cities, Newcastle have fans up to the Scottish Borders , down into Durham and out west past Hexham, Villa have plenty of fans outside Birmingham who go on places like Staffordshire, Worcestershire and even on the edge of Gloucestershire. The 10 year olds in the Aquero era would be 23 now but the club decided that some overseas fan who might come once a season are more important than local support, a lot of this is down to the club solely. Our support in the UK has not expanded to the levels you would expect with the huge success, my belief and it might be crap is that 115 and the bile from the media hasn't helped matters. That stand should have been built 5 or 6 years ago when we were at our peak, they should have been working their nuts off to bring back lapsed fans and getting every kid under 12 to actively support their club, that horse has now bolted and if we don't get back to those levels of success having a 61000 plus capacity might prove to be complete folly.
